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Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
Examines lifetime earnings by educational attainment, occupation, age, gender, and race/ethnicity; variations in earnings at the same degree level by occupation and in the same occupation by degree level; and top-earning occupations by degree level.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States
Education and Literacy
Compares student achievement trends over two years in schools with school administration managers helping principals increase the time they spend on instruction and schools without SAMs. Explores links between principals' time and student performance.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Midwestern)-Illinois, North America-United States (Midwestern)-Iowa, North America-United States (Southern)-Kentucky
Education and Literacy;Immigration;Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Examines government and college tenure systems and how they affect organizational goals. Outlines options for reforming design elements of K-12 teacher tenure, including time-to-tenure, criteria, and process, or replacing tenure with other incentives.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States
Education and Literacy
Analyzes data on risk of school suspension by race/ethnicity, gender, and disability status in nearly five hundred districts; highlights research showing suspensions to be ineffective and harmful; and calls for implementing evidence-based alternatives.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California
Education and Literacy
Describes how state or federal governments could reward exceptional teachers based on a uniform standard across various district-level teacher evaluation systems by determining the systems' reliability in predicting future performance. Includes Q & A.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
Education and Literacy, Government Reform
Examines differences in per-pupil school funding among states, inequities among districts within states, and their implications. Calls for a progressive fiscal equity measure that would encourage state school financing reform.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
Education and Literacy
Outlines criteria and recommendations for state policies on providing mentoring support for new teachers and administrators, including universality, program standards on design and operation, mentor quality, program delivery, funding, and accountability.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
Education and Literacy, Employment and Labor
Analyzes changes in household income during the 2007-09 recession by percentile, family structure, and region; the gap between high- and low-income families compared to other states; the impact of un- and underemployment; and the role of education.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California
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